Ganganagar Lok Sabha Constituency of Rajasthan: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Ganganagar Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Northern state of Rajasthan and cast its vote in the 2019 election on May 6.

Ganganagar registered 74.39 percent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 1.54 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1941656 while the total voter turnout is 1444392. While in 2014, the constituency registered 72.85 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1717810 while the total voter's turnout was 1251397.

Nihal Chand of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharat Ram Meghwal of Indian National Congress, Ravtaram of Communist Party of India and Lunarama of Bahujan Samaj Party are a few prominent candidates contesting for general election 2019 from Ganganagar Lok Sabha constituency of Rajasthan. 

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Rajasthan was held in two phases – April 29 and May 6 –and counting will be held on May 23.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Ganganagar Lok Sabha constituency of Rajasthan.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	NIHAL CHAND	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	BHARAT RAM MEGHWAL	Indian National Congress
3	RAVTARAM	Communist Party of India
4	LUNARAMA	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	TITARA SINGH	Independent
6	NARESH KUMAR	Independent
7	DR. BALKRISHAN PANWAR	Independent
8	BHAJAN SINGH GHAROO	Independent
9	SATISH KUMAR	Independent

Ganganagar constituency covers eight assembly segments – Sadulshahar, Sri Ganganagar, Karanpur, Suratgarh, Raisinghnagar, Sangaria, Hanumangarh and Pilibanga.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Nihalchand of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won by getting a huge margin of over 2.91 lakh votes. He had defeated Master Bhanwarlal Meghwal of the Indian National Congress (INC). Nihalchand had secured 658130 votes while Meghwal got 366389 votes.